About Math 141 Weekly Mastery Lectures:

Calculus 2 (McGill, Winter 2018)

The Weekly Mastery Lectures for Math 141 are ~2h, small-group, sessions that will help you master the concepts and theory presented in the course lectures. They include detailed, typeset notes that explain the terminology and notation. The notes are carefully designed as interactive documents that provide you with a chance to engage the material during the session so you can test your understanding, and also include representative, fully-solved problems and additional practice problems.

During the Mastery Lectures we will look at detailed, developed solutions, meant to illustrate different aspects of the material in a systematic, structured and easy-to-follow approach. Solutions are colour-coded to make it easy for you to see through the barrage of symbols and focus on the key concepts. It’ll also help you learn to structure your answers efficiently and effectively, so that the logic of the solution is clear to you (and the marker!).

The sessions are also designed with a view of the entire course in mind, so you know where to invest your time both in terms of success in this class, as well as in terms of the topics that will have the greatest application in future classes.

The Weekly Mastery Lectures will help you with:

Time Management: even if you’re keeping up with the class on your own, the Math141.com Weekly Mastery Lectures will help you make better use of your study time.The notorious difficulty of McGill math classes is not inherent to the content itself; rather, it is the sheer volume of material that makes the classes so challenging. Better to spend 2h in a weekly session that will help you really understand the concepts and complete assignments yourself, rather than spending 8-10+h banging your head against the textbook and trying to decipher online resources only to get answers that don’t really make much sense to you, and have it haunt you come exam time, when you’ve got 4 other classes to study for.

Maintaining Commitment: despite the best of intentions to keep up with material and not use Uncle Wolfram for Webworks, McGill & Montreal have their way of always offering up absolutely, totally, 100% legitimate reasons that derail the best laid plans. So you make a financial commitment to a weekly session that helps you reach your goal. It’s like the gym-membership model: you can workout on your own, but it’s a lot easier to reach your goals when you surround yourself with others who are working towards the same end. Knowing that you need help to reach a goal (& acting on it!) is knowing how to find the success you want.

Math Therapy: I believe that anyone who wants to learn math, can. If you feel you’re terrible or hopeless at math, or just don’t enjoy it, there’s probably a list of bad math teachers somewhere in your past that would go a long way to explaining the difficulties you have, & no one wants to spend their time feeling like they just can’t get it. However, if you’re motivated and willing to do the work and practice, then you can definitely succeed. I’ve seen it hundreds of times: students go from failing in a fantastically impressive way to acing the class. The Weekly Mastery Lectures will go a long way to rehabilitating your relationship with math. Whatever your level, I want to help you reach your goals in this course – there’s so much more to gain than just a good grade in rising to the challenge.

Top of the Class: many students who attend the Weekly Mastery Lectures don’t want to just pass the class, they want to understand the material at an intuitive level, &nd they want to ace the class. The weekly lectures provide a wealth of information that help you develop general, transferable skills in mathematical literacy and reasoning, and I work hard to help students do their very best (and many have both aced their classes and finished very top of the class).

Cost &nd Payment Info:

First time trial: if you have never attended one of my sessions previously, your first session is only $20.

All Weekly Mastery Lectures: prepay for the entire set of 7 sessions and get the best price for the Math 141 sessions: $280 for everything you need to master the material and succeed in your class.

Included in the weekly membership: not only the weekly lectures, but detailed notes at every session (6-12 pages, 9pt, colour-coded), and priority registration (as well as discounted rates!) for WebWork Workshops, Midterm Mastery Prep and Final Mastery Prep.

This option is only available during the first 3 weeks of sessions and for the total set of 7 sessions. So if you join during the 2nd or 3rd session, the price is still $280; however, you’d receive all the previous notes and still qualify for all the benefits.

My goal in offering this lowest price is to encourage you to join the sessions early, so that you can establish a strong foundation right from the start so you’ll be less stressed for the final and do better in the class, overall: take advantage & register right away!

Prepay (min.) 4 Sessions: $220, includes notes of those 4 sessions and all other benefits of weekly membership. There is always the option of getting the notes from previous tutorials, students can contact me at Jacob@Math141.com for exact prices. The same benefits as the 7-week membership also apply. For additional information, get in touch using the contact form.

Individual Sessions: $65/session, including all relevant notes; subject to space; cancellations must be made min. 48h prior to the session. For additional information, get in touch using the contact form.

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Chris Diehl8/07/2017

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Valere Demelier4/08/2017

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Matthew Brightman5/05/2017

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Erika Mott4/06/2017

Jacob's calc II final review sessions were thorough and helpful. While his lectures explain difficult concepts with clarity, post-lecture notes are provided for further explanation. The amount of effort put into creating these notes is evident and demonstrates his dedication to our understanding of mathematics. Best of luck to you, Jacob and to those entering the treacherous waters of calculus next semester!

Kayla Clokie5/03/2017

Jacob did a great job of explaining everything in a very intuitive, conceptual way that allowed me to understand the reasons and logic behind what we were doing instead of blindly memorizing following algorithms. This helped me go from struggling in Calc 1 and not doing well on the Calc 2 midterm to acing the final to save my grade. Small classes and very thorough study guide with practice problems were also very helpful.

Noah LeFrancois5/24/2017

I used to seriously dislike math because I was scared of what I did not understand. I felt alone, and that my time spent practicing was often wasted. I was stressed about upcoming exams and felt that my options were limited.
I did CAL 1, CAL 2, and Linear Algebra with Jacob, and I can say without a doubt that without his extremely well-designed lessons and practice problems, the countless hours I devoted to practice would have been spent powering through poorly-written textbooks - in other words, utterly wasted.
It is clear that Jacob genuinely cares about each of his students, and is more than willing to put in the time and effort to help you break down any and all barriers between you and the mark you desire.
Frankly, his sessions are an absolute bargain for the value you will get out of them if you put in the time and effort, and even if you simply attend his sessions and don't do an ounce of work beyond that, his teaching style will change the way you feel about mathematics, and learning in general. Thanks to Jacob, new material (e.g. advanced lin alg, differential equations, cal 3) comes more naturally to me. Best time/money investment I have ever made!!! Thank you Jacob!

Wyatt Himmer9/21/2017

Jacob's review sessions have been so worthwhile- I leave every one feeling way more confident than before! With the final coming up it feels so great to be prepared for the exam, especially when most of the other students aren't. Thanks, Jacob, for boosting my calculus confidence and helping me prepare for the exam!

Imogen Hobbs4/06/2017

As a first year at mcgill many things can be new and challenging. Math is no exception , but with Jacob's weekly sessions and reviews you get to understand better outside lectures and because of the setting you can ask as many questions and get more help compared to what you would normally get in class. It has been an amazing journey and math was made easier. Thank you Jacob for the wonderful work.

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Jacob's sessions were clear and well-organized. He takes the time to answer questions and explains really well. I understood the material way better thanks to his tutorials and got an A on my final � he also bakes amazing cookies so it's definitely worth going!

Romy Yang5/23/2017

Jacob helped me a lot with both math classes I took in the past year. His review and weekly documents are incredible and make study a lot easier and faster. As a french speaking students, it has been a pleasure to know that he is perfectly bilingual because he understand every question we ask. The way he teaches shows that he care about his students and the way he performs. The most valuable thing about his review documents, in my opinion, is that it gave us practice problems that are truly what you are going to see in the exams. It's money well invested!